In 2004, Dave won the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop Book Proposal Contest, sponsored by the University of Dayton, Ohio, for his proposal to write a collection of humorous stories about things that have gone wrong in his international travels. Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad was the resulting book. It was selected as a “new and notable” travel book in 2006 by Amazon.com. The book was originally self-published. Later, Inkwater Press bought the rights and published a re-edited and improved second edition in 2008.

Foreign travel has been a big part of Dave’s life since childhood. He has lived in Norway, Turkey, and England, and traveled in roughly 45 countries on five continents. In addition to his work for Rick Steves’ Europe , he has also worked on cruise ships as a guest lecturer for Holland America Lines, and was a featured presenter at the 2008 Wisconsin Book Festival. He has been a Scandinavian cultural consultant to the History Channel program, “Weird US,” and an opening speaker for Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.

Dave lectures frequently on a variety of topics — from informative writing and travel seminars to humorous keynotes about his overseas misadventures. He has a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has studied linguistics at the University of Oslo, Norway. He currently lives in Seattle.

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